Driving towards an open internet ecosystem to help tackle the digital divide
Jun 28, 2021Dan Rabinovitsj
Summary
This post details Meta's ongoing efforts and partnerships to bridge the digital divide by expanding internet connectivity. Key contributions include: announcing a partnership with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to build 2,200 km of fiber in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding terrestrial fiber investments in Pakistan and Indonesia, announcing the integration of Magma with AWS for faster network deployments, highlighting the growth of the Evenstar program for OpenRAN acceleration, and detailing new analytics and monetization capabilities for the Express Wi-Fi platform. It also mentions the commercial launch of MikroTik's 60 GHz product line based on Terragraph technology.
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